St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer told MSNBC on Monday that FEMA had yet to assist after the city was ravaged by a tornado days prior.
The tornado first touched down in St. Louis on Friday. The storm — reportedly 20 miles in length at its strongest — killed at least five people in St. Louis County at the time of writing. Spencer reported during a press conference that 38 people had been injured, and that number was expected to increase as recovery efforts continued.
Friday’s tornado was one of many that affected the region over the weekend, with Kentucky also being hit by storms. At the time of writing, dozens of the dead had already been found.
America will figure it out eventually
Everyone is on their own
Unless you’re a billionaire … your government has abandoned you
I lost my house to a forest fire when I was a kid and the help we got was literally life saving. This time around I’m already stockpiling dry food and water. Also been getting a bunch of work done on my car so it’s as reliable as possible just in case I need to leave in a hurry. Got my “oh shit” bag ready to go in my car too with some extra water and food in the trunk. I live in an area that’s prone to forest fires and flash floods so I’m not really taking any chances for when shit hits the fan. Usually I’d call this overkill but I don’t think that applies this time around knowing that no one is coming to help.
Americans already know this. We’ve known this for as long as we’ve been alive.
The recent events have made the surprise help go away… That sucks, but it’s not shocking. That’s how our society works. Everyone is on their own outside of local charities.
Excuse me. We don’t do that anymore here in the United States. Grab those bootstraps and shut the fuck up peasants. If you didn’t deserve it, almighty god wouldn’t have thrown that tornado at you. Don’t be a drain on the state. Leader has deals to make. These bombs ain’t gonna just drop all on their own. Besides, they’re working on a glorious parade for you. What more do you want?
If I die I just want to die knowing my president had a sweet-ass jet.
Better yet, a sweet ass-jet
Good ol’ XKCD 37
Don’t forget 1053
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St. Louis voted overwhelmingly for Kamala.
Which is why they’re not getting the requested aid… Well, actually, the local emergency manager has to make the disaster declaration to the state and have all their local and mutual aid resources exhausted. Then if the state approves a state disaster, the governor can request a presidential disaster declaration (PDD).
IF the cheeto agreed, that would free up a willing FEMA to respond to requests. However, we now have a FEMA Director that wants to eliminate the agency, so who knows. The whole thing is a shitshow.
And all their electoral votes went to Trump …
Which is a complaint about the electoral college, not STL voters. STL voted for a strong FEMA. But the city is getting trashed on both sides because conservatives hate them for being liberal, while liberals hate them for being in a conservative state.
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You obviously don’t know much about Missouri. St Louis may as well be a different state than the rest of Missouri when it comes to demographics. The city is about 42% white, while the state as a whole is 77% white, for example. The Black people living in Missouri largely don’t have white friends and family living in the countrysides they could have pleaded with to vote for Harris.
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Bruh what the fuck are you smoking?
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You seem to be sucking down some aggressively hateful ignorance.
We’re making the case that St Louis, which overwhelmingly voted for Harris, and was recently struck by a tornado, does not deserve to be lumped in with the rest of Missouri. They share very little in common politically, geographically, or demographically. The only thing they really share is a border on the Missouri River and a section of I-70.
Nobody here is praying for Uncle fuck and Jimbo down in Jeff City.
Huh…wonder why that is. Must be a coincidence i guess
Republicans aren’t giving aid to red as shit counties so unfortunately a blue county isn’t going get anything unfortunately and knowing Republicans, they’ll try to charge them for just reaching out.
it took 1-2 months for huckabee to finally plee for assistance from his former employer trump after the tornados hit.
Pretty sure FEMA no longer has the resources to help.
FEMA Does. The president needs to sign a declaration.
This is an act of ignorance and “pushing it back to the state” as has been the prerogative since the inauguration.
No there will be no help for you. Suffer. This is what you voted for.
St Louis City and County voted for Harris.
Some absolute bullshit for people to put rural maga nonsense on the suffering people of one of the most liberal cities in the US. Shits fucked up honestly. People in St Louis are derided by the maga nutjobs that run our state, and then by outside assholes too ignorant to know anything about our city in the first place. St Louis ISNT going to get FEMA assistance because its liberal. If it was Joplin again or some shit theyd have been there on Friday
When disaster comes for you, dont look at us to help…
Thanks for the well written reply. The people who have fought these far right nutjobs the most are the black folks in north St Louis City. They deal with every form of racism there is. North City folks are now suffering hard from a second massive storm, the tornado took the roofs, the storm last night flooded the houses and apartments.
So tired of ignorant takes generalizing about supposedly red states for an internet own. It only hurts our people more.
Nah they denied money to Alabamas recent disaster too lmao. It’s not even political it’s just the rich really need that money more than you boo.
While I agree with your sentiment, no one’s looking at the city of KC to fix a problem in my town in Maine. The whole country is a victim to this, that’s the whole fucking point, there’s no one to look to for help anymore. Don’t worry the wealthiest liberals in your city will be fine, ask them for help and see if they’re any different?
Truth is no one can be bothered anymore. Just marinate in that suffering until you have the urge to change
So fucked.
The state did not vote with them. The country did not vote with them. They are fucked.
That may be but your sudden nihilism isn’t helping to hide that your original comment is wrong.
Have the day you voted for.
Just gonna put this out there, st Louis and much of the surrounding areas have large black communities. And between St Louis and Kansas city accounted for most of the votes for Biden and Democrats in the state. They didn’t vote for this even if the empty land in the rest of the state did.
Well that sucks.
As someone that lives in one of those two areas it certainly does. Even then as a state we voted to take dark money out of politics, raise the minimum wage, and increase sick days for people. But then the slightly over half of the population that is severely LED poison votes in Republicans. Who writes deceptive bills aimed at undoing the will of the people. Or now not even making that much effort towards it and just saying they will not implement what was voted for. Those of us that live here don’t call it the state of misery for nothing.
Then be better/smarter in the future. Don’t condemn an entire state of people to shit just because you don’t like how some of them voted.
That’d be like me unironically condemning all of Florida (even the normal people that live there) just because I personally don’t like the governor/government of the state and policies they try to enact.
I think it’s important to make the distinction that not everyone in a certain part of the map deserves whatever tragedies happen to them. People are complex.
Goddamn there are some ignorant fucks in this thread.
I live in this shithole state (on the opposite side of St. Louis, but still), but 99% of the people I know here aren’t conservative in the slightest. But that’s not gonna stop people from blanket labelling the entire state as redneck hillbilly fascist fucks.
Please, do better and realize that St. Louis itself probably has most of the liberals in the state so you’re attacking your own interests.
Sry, we don’t use nuance here.
Thoughts and prayers bitches.
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I haven’t had breakfast. I may have to go down there and check it out. Because understanding the magnitude of hurricane damage is the responsibility of just random strangers. If only there was a government agency that some but not all of our taxes were used to fund…
How did Missouri vote again?
The cities always vote mostly blue. The rest of the state is what fucks everyone
Thank you for this, STL went 81% for Harris. They don’t deserve this, places like Jefferson City does.
It just drives me up a wall when people go all red vs blue states. Even the most liberal states have a third of their votes for Trump. Massachusetts voted 36% Trump, much greater margin than people in STL, yet no one says places like MA deserve this. Heck Trump received a greater percent of votes in Boston than he did in STL.
the gop has a stranglehold on blue counties in most red states.
Yeah, most states are pretty evenly purple when you actually get rid of the winner-takes-all map. Typically, the large cities go overwhelmingly blue while all of the hicks go overwhelmingly red. So the state’s balance is mostly based on the urban/rural divide.
It’s also why republicans have systematically been making it harder to vote in cities. Rural areas usually have no wait times for voting, because there are so few people. But urban areas can have wait times measuring 6-8 hours, because republicans have closed nearly all of the urban voting locations.
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Its not even defunded. Its an actual act of the president to ignore declaration requests.
Its also just had massively swept funds that are instead being appropriated to ICE.
Wait a month or two, ADA will kick in.
Worked well for Sanders…
…oh wait.
